| | 1 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dictionary of the History of Ideas  | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The term “abstraction” is the
usual expression in medi- eval philosophical
terminology for several processes distinguished in Aristotle's writings by
different terms, viz., aphairesis
(ἄφαιρεσις)
and korismos
(χωρισμός)
described in different ways. In all probability, it was Boethius who
introduced the Latin abstractio and
abstrahere to translate these Greek nouns and the re- lated verbs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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